Phil Selway Solo Singing Debut At Seven Worlds Collide Concert

Phil Selway, Radiohead’s drummer, made his live solo singing debut at Neil Finn’s Seven Worlds Collide concert in Auckland, NZ.

Phil Selway announced right before performing that he was going to play an original tune, The Family Madness, that he wrote days before the concert, honoring the Finn family. Then as he played the acoustic guitar he performed a short ballad.

Ed O’Brien And Phil Selway Joining New Seven Worlds Collide Project

Radohead’s Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway at the end of this year will join Neil Finn again for the follow-up to the Seven Worlds Collide project. They will be recording a new album with brand new material supporting Oxfam’s international development organization.

The original line-up returning for the Seven Worlds Collide Project is Neil Finn, Phil Selway, Ed O’Brien, Lisa Germano, Johnny Marr, Liam Finn and bassist Sebastian Steinberg from Soul Coughing. There will be other artists to join the project which will include Glenn Kotche, John Stirrat, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco’s Pat Sansone plus songwriters Don and Runda McGlashan. Jim Scott, master recording engineer, will be doing the mixing. In the coming weeks, other names are expected to be added to the line-up.
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Radiohead Latin America Tour Dates In 2009

The plan was that Radiohead would be touring Latin America this year but none of those countries ended up on the 2008 tour schedule. Radiohead won’t be disappointing those fans as they will be touring the Latin American countries in 2009 and two dates have been confirmed. The venues are Foro Sol in Mexico City, Mexico on March 15th & 16th (tickets on sale now) and San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium in Santiago, Chile on March 26th & 27th (tickets on sale now). Argentina and Brazil are also on the tour schedule but those dates have not been confirmed as yet.

Update: additional dates confirmed and on sale now
March 20 – Praça Da Apoteose in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March 22 – Chácara Do Jockey in Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 24 – Club Ciudad in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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